yelling at you bc you're not listening

It's not a virtue to focus totally on your own peace and disregard problems around you. Ironically, it's also not a virtue to stew in your own anxiety.

It's one thing if you say "As long as there are hungry people in my community, I'll stay engaged with the food bank," (which probably will actually comfort you because you'll be surrounded by people working for a solution!) but for a lot of people it's "As long as there is suffering in the world, I will self-flagellate with sad Instagram reels," and you might as well not.

I wasn't able to search this on my device or in the play store. I was only able to reach the app page clicking on the link in this post. Sure enough it was installed. PLEASE click the link in the post and uninstall through there you'll get nowhere searching for it.

I also had to click the link to see it. Oddly enough, it was installed even though I haven't updated my phone's software in nearly a year.

idk i think a lot of the online left is people swindling each other into developing moral ocd for no reason

hopelessness, latching onto the one modicum of influence or even just the appearance of influence which can be harnessed by you all by yourself, performing it, policing yourself and policing others until you don't feel contaminated anymore, repeat. i know it too well.

#exact same opinion but in my experience plenty of the children are over the age of 24 as well

Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of "coupons" which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!

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This seems like an incredibly stupid way of looking at history. We care why they became Nazis because we care what factors will create more Nazis.

Remember everyone -- more important than understanding what processes led to the rise of the Nazis in Germany, is asserting our moral superiority by correctly identifying which people are the Bad Guys. And rest assured that when fascism rises again, we'll be right there tut tutting and shaking our heads with the best of them.

lots of supposedly very smart commentary on history is along the lines of, "um, why should we care about why people did bad things?" idk man why do we care about why wars happen and how they happen. why do we care what the economy was like 100 years ago. why care about anything? nothing happened before us and nobody existed in any important way.

These arguments feel like they miss the point of this quote being about people who refuse to condemn or even defend participation in the holocaust based on "well not all of them actually believed in it, some were just opportunistic about it, or let fear push them to participate" as if that makes it morally okay to participate in genocide. "We need to understand history to not repeat it" and "genocide is always bad even if you don't actually hate the targeted groups" are both true statements and the responses here feel like they argue about the wrong one of these statements.

what is it with able bodied people saying “get well soon” after you say that you’re chronically ill?? like? i am not gonna? and i once literally responded with “i’m not gonna, it’s chronic, as in permanent.” and they went like “oh well, hope you get better!” like bro 💀

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I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

Running D&D in 2024 is like, the player community collectively convinced each other that dungeon crawls, resource management and attrition are bad, so now everyone runs games where characters can expect to get into one or two fights a day and characters are never stretched for resources, and most Reddit threads about D&D are GMs asking for help challenging their groups because of said ignoring of the resource management aspect and getting told that a good GM could make it work so obviously they must be a bad GM.

"This forgotten method could save your D&D campaign" and the thumbnail has a guy thinking ponderously and the words "Dungeons & Dragons" are on the screen with the word "Dungeons" circled

With an arrow pointing to it.

Thanks! I'll check it out after work sometime.

Yay! Happy to have helped! :)

From my understanding Quest was explicitly written with the idea of "What if someone was listening to a lot of APs and tried to reverse engineer the game that'd produce those without starting with 5E"

It very much seems like it: it is a very slight structure over what is ultimately a very common style of fantasy fiction but clearly meant for the sort of gameplay people mean when they say they don't want the system to get in the way of the story. And it utilizes d20s with 20s being the best roll which is a thing I keep harping on about as being actually good design because we all can see how rolling a 20 on the funny shaped dice would feel good on an emotional and kinesthetic level. (Partly because it's been memefied but it has been memefied for a reason!!!)